At the Library: July 28

"Happy, Happy Happy: My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander" by Phil Robertson (nonfiction) This no-holds-barred autobiography chronicles the remarkable life of Phil Robertson, the original Duck Commander and Duck Dynasty star, from early childhood through the founding of a family business.

"Why Hell Stinks of Sulfur: Mythology and Geology of the Underworld" by Salomon Bernard Kroonenberg (nonfiction) "Why Hell Stinks of Sulfur" uses subterranean mythology as a point of departure to explore the vast world that lies beneath our feet. Geologist Salomon Kroonenberg takes us on an expedition that begins in Dante's "Inferno" and continues through Virgil, Da Vinci, Descartes, and Jules Verne. He investigates the nine circles of hell, searches a lake near Naples for the gates of hell used by Aeneas, and turns a scientific spotlight on the many myths of the underworld. He uncovers the layers of the earth's interior one by one, describing the variety of gasses, ores, liquids, and metals that add to the immense variety of color that can be found below us. Kroonenberg views the inside of the earth as a living ecosystem whose riches we are only beginning to discover, and he warns against our thirst for natural resources exhausting the earth.

"JFK's Last Hundred Days: The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President" by Thurston Clarke (nonfiction) A revelatory, minute-by-minute account of JFKs last hundred days that asks what might have been